It is blue, white and red in three vertical bands. The blue is nearer to the mast.
The French flag is based on a revolutionary cockade created during the French Revolution in 1789, after the fall of the Bastille. It takes the colours of red and blue, the colours of Paris (blue representing equality, and the need for the first two Estates to maintain their duty to the common people, or the Third Estate, as well as sharing the burden of taxes; red representing liberty, the colour of the bonnet rouge, a hat of liberty worn by revolutionaries). The red and blue are combined with white, symbol of the Bourbon monarchy.The flag represents everything the French Revolution stood for, including all the ideals mentioned in the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, the 1791 and 1795 Constitutions, founded on liberal bourgeois ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The colours of the flag are a symbol of the achievements that were won through the Revolution.
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According to the French constitution, there is only one official emblem, which is the French flag (blue, white and red). However, the Gallic Rooster is used as an unofficial symbol for France.
Blue, white and then red (from left to right)
It became the French Tricolore of Blue, White and Red.
tricolor
So, i'm french, and the colors of the French flag represent: - For the blue : It's the color of Paris - For the white : It's the color of the nobility at the time of the French Revolution - For the red : It's the color of revolutionaries Bye and I hope I didn't make mistakes (for translate) ;)
The Paris militia wore red and blue ribbons on their hats. Because of the role played by the militia in the revolution, the revolutionaries adopted these colors for their flag, along with white, the traditional color of France.
It is blue, white and red in three vertical bands. The blue is nearer to the mast.
French wore Red and Blue
The French Tricolore of Blue White and Red had as its origin the blue and red cockade of Paris worn on a field of white representing the Ancient Regieme of France. In turn, the three colors have assumed the three words in the French Motto of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
The colors themselves have no specific meaning. Blue and red were traditionally the colors of the city of Paris, and white was an ancient color in banners used by the French in battle. The white was added to create a more 'national' character instead of a purely Parisian one.
Just after the French Revolution, the King Louis XVI had to accept to wear la cocarde, which is a circle ribbon composed of three colors, blue, white, and red. At this time, the blue and red colors represented the city of Paris, which was the center of the Revolution. The white color represented the Kings of France, such as the lily flower. The message of the flag was so : The King is now between the hands of Paris (until the Revolution, the King lived in Versailles).
The French flag is based on a revolutionary cockade created during the French Revolution in 1789, after the fall of the Bastille. It takes the colours of red and blue, the colours of Paris (blue representing equality, and the need for the first two Estates to maintain their duty to the common people, or the Third Estate, as well as sharing the burden of taxes; red representing liberty, the colour of the bonnet rouge, a hat of liberty worn by revolutionaries). The red and blue are combined with white, symbol of the Bourbon monarchy.The flag represents everything the French Revolution stood for, including all the ideals mentioned in the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, the 1791 and 1795 Constitutions, founded on liberal bourgeois ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The colours of the flag are a symbol of the achievements that were won through the Revolution.
These were called cockades. I have also read about them being called tricolors.
The French wore blue.